Mid-range spectrum analyzers gain real-time imaging to show live RF 

The explosion of digital RF has created a highly complex technology environment, requiring next-generation test and measurement instruments. To address...

Power Transistors 

1700-2700 MHz, 5 W amplifier GaN power transistors Gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon RF power transistor developer Nitronex has developed a 28 V, 5 W class...

The challenges of moving to MIMO systems 

Today's radio devices use a single-input, single-output (SISO) configuration with one transmitter and one receiver and information sent over a single-channel....

Simplifying RF front-end design in multiband handsets 

Ruthless competition in the handset market continues to drive manufacturers to search for new opportunities to drive down cost, printed circuit board...

Spectral-mask shaping for a Class 1 Gen 2 PR-ASK RFID I/Q modulator 

An integrated I/Q modulator such as the LT5568-2 can generate the 900 MHz transmit signal for a Class 1 Gen 2 UHF RFID reader. While there are less expensive...

Ensuring reliability of intelligence gathering receivers and portable power systems 

Whether it is an intelligence-gathering receiver system or a portable power system, each plays an important role in modern warfare. And we very well know...

Standardizing Transceiver APIs for Software Defined and Cognitive Radio 

Over the past several years, numerous specifications have been developed defining the interface between the RF front-end and the baseband processing sub-systems...

Creating test signals for SIGINT receivers 

Signal intelligence or SIGINT plays an important role in modern warfare. SIGINT is a general term that includes radio band (communications intelligence...

Testing a power system with an appropriate load platform 

A well-engineered electronic load is not designed for exclusive use in the laboratory. It should be carefully engineered and built to test real power...

DC/RF parametric probe tackles 45 nm process node 

Cascade Microtech has launched two new Pyramid parametric probe cards that allow single-pass high performance DC and RF measurements and reduce the cost of parametric production test for semiconductors with advanced process nodes at 65 nm, 45 nm and beyond...

Linear VCO offers wide control voltage range 

Crystek's CVCO55CC-1930-2110 VCO operates from 1930 MHz to 2110 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.5 V~18 V...

Small, lightweight OTDR offers high performance 

Sunrise Telecom Inc.'s FTT-1000 optical time domain reflectometer is one of the smallest and lightest units in its class, according to the maker....

S-band coaxial resonator oscillator delivers ultralow phase noise 

Z-Communications, Inc. has introduced a new lead free, RoHS compliant, coaxial resonator oscillator in S band featuring ultralow phase noise performance of –109dBc/Hz @10 kHz offset. ...

X-FAB transforms Malaysian operation into analog/mixed-signal fab 

Within 15 months of closing the merger that added Malaysia’s Sarawak facility, Germany’s X-FAB Silicon Foundries has successfully transferred four complex processes and added RF CMOS option to a new 0.18 µm process technology to its line-up. ...

Connectorless test probe eyes high-speed serial protocol testing 

Samtec has introduced its new Spirit connectorless test probe (SCTP Series) to address the need for high-speed serial protocol testing with quick and reliable connection to electrically sensitive signals...

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